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$161 MILL INVESTED IN 16 VIRTUAL WORLDS-RELATED COMPANIES IN Q2 2008
$345 MILL INVESTED IN 39 VIRTUAL WORLDS-RELATED COMPANIES IN FIRST 1/2 OF 08

July 9, 2008 - Austin, Texas -- Virtual Worlds Management (VWM), the leading virtual worlds trade media company, has announced findings from a comprehensive study of accountable transactions showing that venture capital and media firms have invested more than $161 million dollars in 16 virtual worlds-related companies during the second quarter of 2008, not including two companies that were acquired for unknown amounts. This compares with $184 million dollars in 23 virtual worlds related companies during the first quarter of 2008. That puts the total amount invested in the first 6 months of 2008 at $345 million. VWM produces the annual Virtual Worlds Expo taking place September 3-4, 2008 in Los Angeles and Virtual Worlds London taking place October 20-21, 2008 in London.

Virtual Worlds News has the analysis of the numbers here:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/07/161-million-inv.html

Virtual Worlds-Related Companies Funded During Q2 2008
Editors Note:  News Story column links to a recent full article about the company
 
Company Segment Amount Named Investors More info
8D World Virtual world  platform developer $1 million+ Spark Capital http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/06/8d-world-receiv.html
Akoha Social game? $1.9 million Angel investors http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/akoha-gets-19m.html
GirlSense.com Fashion Virtual World Unknown Acquisition IAC http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/05/iac-acquires-gi.html
GoFish Ad/media network $1.5 million none http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/gofish-gets-15m.html
Grockit MMO Learning Game $8 million Integral Capital and Benchmark Capital http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/05/grockit-gets-8m.html
Metaverse Mod Squad Virtual World Support $200,000+ Angel investors http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/06/metaverse-mod-s.html
ngi group Solutions provider, platform devloper $15.7 million NTT http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/06/ntt-investing-1.html 
Novint 3D controllers/peripherals $5.2 million http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/06/novint-gets-52m.html
Nurien Software 3D social networking $15 million Northern Light Venture Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates, and QiMing Venture Partners http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/nurien-gets-15m.html
PixVerse Virtual World Platform Developer Unknown Acquisition hi5 http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/07/hi5-acquires-pi.html
PlayFish Casual Games/Virtual Wolrds $1 million Accel Partners http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/07/playfish-gets-1.html
PrimeSense Gestural Interface $20.4 million Led by Canaan Partners with participation from existing investors Gemini Israel Funds (who also provided the seed funding) and Genesis Partners http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/05/prime-sense-get.html
Realtime Worlds MMOG Developer $50 million led by Maverick Capital with participation from previous investor New Enterprise Associates and new investor WPP http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/realtime-worlds.html
Seasky MMOG $3 million Perfect World http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/perfect-world-i.html
Stanford Parallel Processing Lab Parallel Processing for Virtual Worlds $6 million Sun Microsystems, AMD, Nvidia, IBM, HP, and Intel http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/05/stanford-gets-6.html
Turbine MMOG $40 million Led by Time Warner Inc. and GGV Capital with participation from existing investors, Highland Capital Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, Tudor Ventures and Columbia Capital http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/06/turbine-finishe.html
  Total $161 million

Source:  Virtual Worlds Management

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